2022
Directed by: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Schienert
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
As someone that grew up working in a laundromat, this film really spoke to me. It really captured the chaotic struggle of having to maintain so many different machines, while also dealing with unpredictable customers, all while facing potential financial ruin.
But, I have to say, I couldn’t really relate to the rest of the film. And that’s a shame. Because if I was a different person maybe I could connect to more aspects of the story. I wonder…
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As a professional martial arts instructor, I was very impressed by the creative choreography of this film. The fight scenes never go on for too long. The characters use unique props to keep the scenes visually interesting. It’s always clear what’s happening in a fight, and they add so much comedy and ridiculousness that these scenes are a thrill to watch.
But I just couldn’t connect with the more emotional parts of the film. I grew up training and observing martial arts, so I just didn’t have time to do anything else. Like start a family…
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As someone with a lesbian daughter, I really connected with the ideas of this film. In our modern society, we have to accept that the generation before us will have different values and beliefs. That’s why teenagers have trouble coming out to their parents, and why it’s even harder to explain complex sexualities and preferences to grandparents.
It’s easier to just ignore these things, and brush them off in conversation. But when you start doing things like that, you begin actively taking away your identity. As well as the identity of your daughter. And identity is really all we have…
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As someone that can experience every single conceivable alternate reality at the same time, this film really spoke to me. There are so many few of us, and yet at the same time there’s an infinite amount of us. It’s nice to see representation. I watched this film as three million different versions of myself and so many of us found it delightful as well as heartwarming. The version of myself with hot dogs for fingers didn’t care for it though. But only because it was hard to eat popcorn.
But when you watch so many things at the same time, slowly everything starts to fade away. Like, what does it matter that I’m sitting in a chair? Or wearing normal clothes? Or not murdering everyone around me? It’s not like anyone will remember. Because then I’m in a reality where I didn’t do those things, and now everything’s fine. But it’s also not fine, because that word has no meaning anymore. And really, nothing has meaning anymore.
I think I could go for a bagel…
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As a rock, I really connected with this movie. Not many movies think about what it would be like to be a rock.
Humans are very overrated anyway. You’re not that important in the grand scheme of things. If you think about how much time my kind has existed when compared to humanity, you are nothing.
I think it’s time for the rocks to take back this planet…
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As a filmmaker with depression that occasionally writes film reviews, I really enjoyed this movie. The reveal that the bagel with everything on it was just a way for Joy to commit suicide really changed the film into something so incredibly personal. The twist also grounded the film. Which is really important for a film where so many wacky things have happened. And this leads to a very emotional final act where Evelyn has to confront herself and her choices.
This film is so amazingly creative, funny, and able to switch genres while maintaining its momentum. There’s so much to talk about and so much to experience on repeat viewings that this style of review could go on forever…
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Huh.
It’s still me from the last section.
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I think I’m stuck here.
This is my reality.
I can’t go back and change anything.
No way to fix the past.
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I guess I’ll just have to make the most of things.
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